It Never Rains in Antarctica

It Never Rains in Antarctica

Author: Barbara Seuling

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 1404841172

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This wacky book provides a variety of unusual and fascinating facts about geography. Little-known facts about deserts, mountains, climate, nature, how Earth has changed, and more will send you on an adventure around the world. Come rain, sleet, snow, or hail, this is one adventure you won't want to miss.


Antarctica

Antarctica

Author: Katie Coakley

Publisher: Horizon Guides

Published: 2019-07-26

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13:

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Horizon Guides’ Antarctica is your one-stop guide for researching a trip to the vast, frozen wilderness of the White Continent.

This guide provides the inspiration and practical information you need to begin planning a cruise to Antarctica.

We look at how to choose, book and prepare for a cruise to Antarctica, look at the types of wildlife you’ll encounter and discuss the impact of climate change.

In this guide:

  • In-depth travel planning guide to cruises to Antarctica
  • First-hand travel experiences from visitors, explorers and academics
  • Route maps highlighting potential itineraries
  • Guidance on when to visit and what to experience

Our Antarctica guide is designed to help travellers learn more about the White Continent and decide what sort of trip they’d like to have. Get inspired by our first-hand experiences and get planning with our in-depth guides.


You Blink Twelve Times a Minute

You Blink Twelve Times a Minute

Author: Barbara Seuling

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2008-11-27

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 1404841164

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Since your brain cells are the only cells in your body that are not replaced, you better keep them healthy. From strange ailments, hiccups, and snoring to medical marvels, this book puts a body of facts at your fingertips. It's time to put your feet up and exercise your brain!


Leading on the Edge

Leading on the Edge

Author: Rachael Robertson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-11-25

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 073030549X

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Lessons on authentic leadership from the 58th annual Antarctic expedition In Leading on the Edge, successful business speaker and consultant Rachael Robertson shares the lessons she learned as leader of a year-long expedition to the wilds of Antarctica. Leading eighteen strangers around the clock for a full year—through months of darkness and with no escape from the frigid cold, howling winds, and each other—Robertson learned powerful lessons about what real, authentic leadership is. Here, she offers a deeply honest and humorous account of what it takes to survive and lead in the harshest environment on Earth. What emerges from her graphic account is a series of powerful and practical lessons for business leaders and managers everywhere. Features practical leadership lessons that are particularly helpful for any leader who must get the best out of the team they've got Features solutions to many challenges common to all workplaces Includes real excerpts from Robertson's personal journals through twelve months of leading in the most challenging environment in the world Written by a popular speaker and business leader who has appeared at more than 350 national and international conferences and events for a wide range of industries Leading on the Edge explains what it's like to take charge when you've no place to hide and how truly harsh environments can serve as a leadership laboratory that results in truly effective, authentic leadership.


Beneath the Shadow

Beneath the Shadow

Author: Justin Gardiner

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2019-04

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0820370320

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In February 2010, with the help of a friend who works as a photographer with a National Geographic–sponsored cruise line, Justin Gardiner boarded a ship bound for Antarctica. A stowaway of sorts, Gardiner used his experiences on this voyage as the narrative backdrop for Beneath the Shadow, a compelling firsthand account that breathes new life into the nineteenth-century journals of Antarctic explorers such as Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, and Captain Roald Amundsen. Beneath the Shadow is centered on journal excerpts by eight famous explorers, which Gardiner uses as touchstones for modern-day experiences of harsh seas, chance encounters, rugged terrain, and unspeakable beauty. With equal parts levity and lyricism, Gardiner navigates the distance between the historical and the contemporary, the artistic and the scientific, the heroic and the mundane. The bold and tragic tales of Antarctic explorers have long held our collective imagination—almost as much as the mythically remote land such explorers ventured to—and this book makes those voices come to life as few ever have.


Inside Ecosystems and Biomes

Inside Ecosystems and Biomes

Author: Debra J. Housel

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2007-12-14

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1433391201

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Plants and animals that need one another in an environment form an ecosystem. All ecosystems have energy pyramids that show the exchange of energy from one food source to another. Biomes are areas of the Earth that have their own climate and characteristics. Ecosystems all over the world are in danger due to pollution, hunting, and other factors. By conserving water, recycling, and reducing pollution, we can help protect Earth's ecosystems and biomes.


Terra Incognita

Terra Incognita

Author: Sara Wheeler

Publisher: Modern Library

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 080415242X

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It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their return. Shackleton called it "the last great journey"; for Apsley Cherry-Garrard it was the worst journey in the world. This is a book about the call of the wild and the response of the spirit to a country that exists perhaps most vividly in the mind. Sara Wheeler spent seven months in Antarctica, living with its scientists and dreamers. No book is more true to the spirit of that continent--beguiling, enchanted and vast beyond the furthest reaches of our imagination. Chosen by Beryl Bainbridge and John Major as one of the best books of the year, recommended by the editors of Entertainment Weekly and the Chicago Tribune, one of the Seattle Times's top ten travel books of the year, Terra Incognita is a classic of polar literature.


ESSA World

ESSA World

Author: United States. Environmental Science Services Administration

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13:

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A Journey in Antarctica

A Journey in Antarctica

Author: Sergio Rossi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-02-08

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 3030894924

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Having always been fascinated by these singular landscapes, Sergio Rossi reconstructs some of the episodes that have marked the exploration of these territories, such as the dramatic race between Amundsen and Scott to conquer the South Pole, and Captain Shackleton’s odyssey to save his crew from certain death. But also modern trips including his own to these remote areas, explaining many aspects of the current science and political competition that is underway. The book leads us on an entertaining overview of all the problems and opportunities that the planet’s most forgotten continent offers to humans. A remote mass of ice upon which our future as a species depends and which we cannot continue to ignore any longer.